Posted on 09/25/2014 11:23:42 AM PDT by walford
HARTFORD – A 16-member commission of educators, local and state officials and behavioral experts assembled by Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy after the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre is calling for more oversight of homeschooling.
Sandy Hook School SignMalloy “charged the panel with making recommendations to reduce the risk of future tragedies,” according to the New Haven Register.
Its chief recommendation is “tighter scrutiny of home-schoolers … to prevent an incident such as the December 2012 slaughter of 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown,” the Connecticut Post reports.
“Given the individuals involved in the tragedy that formed the basis of this commission, I think we have thought this issue out at some length and we believe it is very germane and that the actual facts leading up to this incident support the notion of the risk in not addressing social and emotional learning needs of children who may have significant needs in that area who are home-schooled,” said commissioner member Dr. Harold I. Schwartz, according to the Post.
Specifically, the panel is recommending school district bureaucrats have greater oversight and authority over a parent’s ability to home school their children.
It recommends home-schooled children “with problems” be required to submit an Individual Education Plan to their local school district for approval and provide regular “progress reports,” according to the Journal Inquirer.
The Post characterizes the “problems” as “behavioral and emotional disabilities.” There’s no indication who would make that judgement.
Targeting homeschooling stems from the revelation that the Sandy Hook shooter, Adam Lanza, was taken out of Newtown Public School District by his mother, Nancy, when he was in 10th grade. She did so because “she was unhappy with the school district’s plans for her son,” according to ABC News.
“She mentioned she wound up home-schooling him because she battled with the school district,” Nancy’s sister-in-law Marsha told ABC in 2012.
“The purpose of this recommendation is to make sure that kids get what kids need. If they have needs that aren’t being addressed, just because the parent has chosen to remove them from the school setting… their needs are still going to be met,” Kathleen Flaherty, staff attorney for Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut, said of the recommendations, according to CTnewsjunkie.com.
Many parents make that decision for very valid reasons. Should that make them subject to additional governmental scrutiny, as the panel is suggesting?
Because if the act of homeschooling and the perceived lack of governmental oversight is to blame, how does Sandy Hook Advisory Panel explain way these public school students:
* On March 21, 2005, Red Lake Senior High School student Jeffrey Weise killed five students, one teacher, one security guard, and then committed suicide.
* On April 20, 1999, Columbine High School students Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed 12 students and one teacher, and wounded 21 others before committing suicide.
* On March 5, 2001, student Charles Andrew Williams killed two students and wounding 13 others at Santana High School in California.
* On February 27, 2012, TJ Lane walked into the Chardon High School cafeteria and fired into a group of students sitting at a lunch table. Three students died in the attack. His “emotional disability” was such that he wore a t-shirt with “Killer” scrawled on it to his sentencing.
The examples go on and they all point back to a failed government bureaucracy that apparently didn’t adequately address the “behavioral and emotional disabilities” of the students in its care.
But more restrictions on home schoolers will prevent another Newtown?
That’s what the government school employees, university professors “behavioral experts” believe.
He had the problem BEFORE homeschooling, therefore it was not homeschooling that caused his problem.
“Where are the data? Are they claiming that home-schooled children are more violent, or more prone to crime than public-school kids? Are they claiming that their new rules would prevent schizophrenia?”
This is about union power, indoctrination and unilaterally disarming law-abiding citizens. Period.
If everyone homeschooled,
a Sandy Hook would have been impossible.
All the kids would have been at home.
I think our government should consider exporting public education. It would be cheaper and our kids would learn more.
They are neither except the corrupt part. Otherwise they are simply Totalitarians who believe they will rule in the new Total State or at least have will have comfortable positions in the Nomenklatura.
Pulled my grandaughter out at 15 because of the lack of learning, gangs, dumbed down tests etc. She got so bored with the school drudge she stopped caring about learning entirely.
Home schooled her at 15, she passed her state GED tests and received her HS diploma at 16, 3 days after her 17th birthday taking Math, English and Nursing pre-requisites at the 4 yr local college as a full time college student.
She would have ended up a dropout at 16 and flipped burgers forever if nothing would have been done. Now she is on the road to becing an RN by the time she’s 20.
Is this satire?
Of course - everything seems satire in Konnecticut.
The idiocy of the whole thing is that this one particular homicidal lunatic was actually a product of the PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM for at least 10 years, but presumably more. He was pulled at the age of 15 or 16 when he was halfway through their high school system, to be homeschooled because the public system was failing him. I defy them to name one child who was homeschooled his entire life who has gone on a shooting rampage and killed a pile of people. Any direction they can point a finger that doesn’t incur any blame on their own extremely flawed system. (shaking head in incredulity)
Your granddaughter’s story is not a happy one for the Left. If she had ended up a 16-year-old dropout [and impregnated by a series of unemployed fathers], she would have been ignorant, impoverished and govt-dependent — an ideal citizen for the Party of Jim Crow.
Gun control, child control, we are just tools of the state.
In school he was diagnosed with psychological issues again and again through 10th grade. So, the school system had him through 10th grade.
In Spring 2008, he stopped going to his high school classes, but he continued with a Tech Club and other events at the school. Also that semester (Spring 2008), he turned 16 (the legal dropout age), earned his GED, and applied to a university. He was accepted and started university courses in Summer 2008.
That's not even homeschooling. That's dropping out to start college at age 16.
But, of course, that simple logic won't stop the public school educators from claiming that he was homeschooled.
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WHAT Sandy Hook Massacre??
It may be BIN, but...
http://beforeitsnews.com/terrorism/2014/09/fbi-says-no-one-killed-at-sandy-hook-2450716.html
Fast forward to 1 month ago. Same Walmart. Everything is locked up and the shelves are sparsely populated. I asked the clerk for a box of 30-30 and two boxes of Remington shotgun ammo.
I went to pay for it and presented my MA LTC.
"Oh...I'm sorry...we don't take that. You're from MA? Can't sell this to out of state residents."
And I though MA was effed up. The folks in CT have gone right round the bend with this Sandy Hook stuff.
And to think.....this craphole of a state is called the “Constitution State.”
For those of you that homeschool... your home’s front door just became a TSA checkpoint.
I believe the toxicology tests showed he wasn’t on any drugs.
this is the Teacher’s union getting in their licks.
Maniacal control freaks doing what maniacal control freaks do.
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